2019-02-22T07:05:07ZPersonalised nutrition: Making it happenhttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/16829
Stewart-Knox B, Gibney E, Abrahams M, Rankin A, Bryant E, Oliveira BMPM and Poínhos R (2019) Personalised nutrition: Making it happen. In: Galanakis C. Trends in Personalized Nutrition. Academic Press.
Personalised Nutrition allows individual variation in dietary, lifestyle, anthropometric, phenotypic and/or genomic information to be considered when giving dietary advice. Compared to ‘generic’ dietary health messages, personalised dietary advice has been shown more likely to result in healthy dietary change. Personalised regimes can help clients in this endeavour by putting them in control and taking into consideration individual propensity for behaviour change, motives for food choice as well as social and lifestyle factors impacting upon the eating context. Provision of personalised nutrition services across Europe should consider inter-country differences in perceived barriers to uptake of personalised nutrition including those associated with the process from the collecting of information and taking of biological samples through to how the results are interpreted and delivered. Irrespective of European country, potential consumers appear to trust health professionals such as dietitians over commercial agents to provide personalised nutrition. Dieticians, therefore, are likely to play a key role in making personalised nutrition happen in the future. Organisations representing nutrition and dietetics professionals will need to be consulted for guidance on how to address the ethical and legal issues around personalised nutrition and regulate practice. A future is envisaged where commercial personalised nutrition will work with existing health providers in bringing the benefits of personalised nutrition to the wider public.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZNecessary connections: “Feelings photographs” in criminal justice researchhttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/16828
Rogers C (2019) Necessary connections: “Feelings photographs” in criminal
justice research. Methodological Innovations. Accepted for publication.
Visual representations of prisons and their inmates are common in the
news and social media, with stories about riots, squalor, drugs, selfharm
and suicide hitting the headlines. Prisoners’ families are left to
worry about the implications of such events on their kin, while those
incarcerated and less able to understand social cues, norms and rules,
are vulnerable to deteriorating mental health at best, to death at worst.
As part of the life-story method in my research with offenders who are
on the autism spectrum, have mental health problems and/or have
learning difficulties, and prisoner’s mothers, I asked participants to take
photographs, reflecting upon their experiences. Photographs in this case,
were primarily used to help respondents consider and articulate their
feelings in follow-up interviews. Notably, seeing (and imagining) is often
how we make a connection to something (object or feeling), or someone
(relationships), such that images in fiction, news/social media, drama,
art, film and photographs can shape the way people think and behave –
indeed feel about things and people. Images and representations ought
to be taken seriously in researching social life, as how we interpret
photographs, paintings, stories and television shows is based on our own
imaginings, biography, culture and history. Therefore, we look at and
process an image before words escape, by ‘seeing’ and imagining. How
my participants and I ‘collaborate’ in doing visual methods and then how
we make meaning of the photographs in storying their feelings, is
insightful. As it is, I wanted to enable my participants to make and
create their own stories via their photographs and narratives, whilst
connecting to them, along with my own interpretation and subjectivities.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZWhat keeps you sharp? People's views about preserving thinking skills in old agehttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/16816
Niechcial MA, Vaportzis E and Gow AJ (2019) What keeps you sharp? People's views about preserving thinking skills in old age. Age and Ageing. 48(Suppl. 1): i32-i35.
2019-02-01T00:00:00ZIncreasing the discoverability on non-English language research papers: a reverse-engineering application of the pitching research templatehttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/16815
Faff RW, Shao X, Alqahtani F et al (2017) Increasing the discoverability of non-English language research papers: a reverse-engineering application of the pitching research template. (May 14, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2948707
Discoverability or visibility is a challenge that faces all researchers worldwide – with an ever increasing supply of good research entering the scholarly marketplace; this challenge is only becoming intensified as time passes. The global language of scholarly research is English and so the obstacle of getting noticed is magnified manyfold when the article is not written in the English language. Indeed, despite rapid advances in technology, the “tyranny of language” creates a segmentation inhibiting scholarly research and innovation generally. Mass translation of non-English language articles is neither feasible nor desirable. Our paper proposes a strategy for remedying this segmentation – such that, the work of non-English language scholars become more discoverable. The core piece of this strategy is a “reverse-engineering” [RE] application of Faff’s (2015, 2017) “pitching research” template. More specifically, we provide translated versions of the “cued” template across THIRTY THREE different languages: (1) Arabic; (2) Chinese; (3) Dutch; (4) French; (5) Greek; (6) Hindi; (7) Indonesian; (8) Japanese; (9) Korean; (10) Lao; (11) Norwegian; (12) Polish; (13) Portuguese; (14) Romanian; (15) Russian; (16) Sinhalese; (17) Spanish; (18) Tamil; (19) Thai; (20) Urdu; (21) Vietnamese; (22) Myanmar; (23) German; (24) Persian; (25) Bengali; (26) Filipino; (27) Italian; (28) Afrikaans; (29) Khmer (Cambodia); (30) Danish; (31) Finnish; (32) Hebrew; (33) Turkish. Further, we showcase illustrative dual language examples of the RE strategy for the Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and French cases.
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZThe type of concurrent task affects dual-task performance in Huntington's diseasehttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/16814
Vaportzis E, Georgiou-Karistianis N, Churchyard A et al (2014) The type of concurrent task affects dual-task performance in Huntington's disease. 85(Suppl 1): A50-51.
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